Exploring Public Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Georgia: Trends and Policy Implications

Public attitudes towards immigrants are becoming an increasingly important issue in many countries and are not always positive. In Georgia, CRRC's Caucasus Barometer survey data show that public attitudes towards immigrants remain quite ambivalent. The changes in reported attitudes between 2015 and 2017 are not necessarily positive. Negative attitudes towards immigrants are more widespread among those who have not had personal contact with immigrants, thus supporting the 'contact hypothesis.' The empirical evidence also supports the economic self-interest theory, with higher shares of people living in better-off households reporting positive attitudes towards immigrants in Georgia

The Graviton Production in a Hot Homogeneous Isotropic Universe

It is shown that the RTG predicts an opportunity of the intensive production of gravitons at the early stage of evolution of the homogeneous isotropic Universe. A hypothesis is suggested that the produced gas of gravitons could be just the ``dark matter'' which presently manifests itself as a ``missing mass'' in our Universe.Comment: 6 pages, latex fil

How Were the Hilbert--Einstein Equations Discovered?

The pathways along which A. Einstein and D. Hilbert independently came to the gravitational field equations are traced. Some of the papers that assert a point of view on the history of the derivation of the gravitational field equations ``that radically differs from the standard point of view'' are critically analyzed. It is shown that the conclusions drawn in these papers are completely groundless.Comment: 40 pages, misprints remove

On gravitational flow in the Relativistic Theory of Gravitation

A definition of the gravitational flow and a short description of the recipe of its calculation are presented.Comment: 6 page